Study design: We present the case of an 18-year-old man, previously healthy, who presented with acute quadriplegia and respiratory failure. Physical examination was compatible with a high cervical anterior spinal cord ...

We describe the case of a previously healthy young man who presented with headache, diplopia, nausea, vomiting, and bilateral papilledema. Magnetic resonance venography of the brain revealed thrombosis of the right transverse ...

Kimura disease (KD) is a rare condition that predominantly affects young middle-aged Asian men. It is classically characterized by tumors in the head and neck region with associated eosinophilia and elevated serum ...

Conclusion. There was no evidence from this study that Helicobacter pylori (HP) colonizes the nasopharynx of children with middle ear disease, whether dyspeptic or not. There is also no apparent role for this bacterium in ...

Objective Variants of estrogen receptor α (ERα) have been associated with obesity, dyslipidemia, diabetes and blood pressure. The Middle East registers some of the highest rate of metabolic syndrome worldwide. The aim of ...

Despite major advances in cancer therapeutics, the prognosis for lung cancer patients is still poor and the median survival for patients presenting with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is only 8-10. months. ...

Background: Genetic thrombophilia work up performance is subject to debate because of the utility of the information it provides regarding prognosis of recurrence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and guidance of duration ...

Aims: Rapid molecular detection of enterovirus in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment modalities of patients with meningitis and largely affected cost of unnecessary antibiotic use and ...

Adenoid hyperplasia is a common cause of nasal obstruction in the pediatric age group. Recently, the adenoids were shown to harbor Helicobacter pylori (HP) based only on the rapid urease test (RUT). We conducted this pilot ...

Aim: The JAK2 V617F mutation has been implicated in a variety of diseases mainly related to myeloproliferative disorders including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and idiopathic myelofibrosis with an increased ...

In follicular lymphoma the frequency of translocation t(14;18) varies considerably across different geographic regions ranging from up to 89percent among the American follicular lymphoma to around 30percent in the Japanese ...

Aims: The Natural Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor (KIR) genotype profiling in Follicular Lymphoma has not been reported before in the literature. Materials and methods: DNA extracted from 20 Follicular Lymphoma ...

Genotypic profiles of the Natural killer cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR) have been reported to vary among different ethnic groups and this study represents a comparative report on its distribution between two ...

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